Proposed 200000-seat stadium for Anacostia Park DC
Plans call for a 200000 spectator stadium with a curving steel roof at Anacostia Park on the district border. It would host baseball football hockey and other events day or night including world fairs pageants and Olympic games. Senator Theodore Bilbo chairs the commission. Navy coach Rip Miller notes concerns about line depth as Army shows strength in passing and power. Various sports figures and news items follow in a dense rounded column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Pine
District of Columbia
Anacostia Park
Theodore Bilbo
Mississippi
Navy
Rip Miller
Scott
Jenkins
Kelly
Duden
Hoernschemeyer
Army
Ty Cobb
Miller Huggins
Frank Crosetti
Yankees
Larry Gilbert
Nashville
Chicago Orbs
Youngstier
Lon Flnney
Red Sox
Alabama
New York Boxing Commission
Browns
Howard Ehmke
Philadelphia Athletics
Harry Chozen
Mobile
One-Armed Ball Star Retains Focus in Amputee Game
S/Sgt. Wallace Widelski, a war veteran who lost an arm, stretches for a glove catch during an amputee game at a Battle Creek hospital. The men demonstrate they can still pitch and play despite losing two limbs in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Widelski
Battle Creek
Mich
Looking Back The Way We Came
The item lists local residents visiting relatives and spending time at community spots. Names include Fosdick Clements Tescher Carr Hartman Roberts Towler Burkhart and Maree Burkhart linked to Columbus Detroit and Wampler’s Lake. The fragment notes illness and an anniversary milestone marked thirty years ago.
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Earl Fosdick
Dale
Ferman Clements
Junior Walters
Columbus
Ohio
Lee Tescher
Carl Carr
Fosdick
Wampler’s Lake
Reuben Hartman
Ernest Towler
J. J. Roberts
Detroit
Fred Burkhart
Maree
Burkhart
Local residents note weekend visits and travels
Thirty years ago Miss Cora Klumpp, Miss Edna Rogers, Otto Berner and Willie Burkhardt drove to Dexter for the big day. Miss Nellie Armbruster of Lodi visits Mrs. B. N. Smith. Miss Violet Smith of Saline township visits Mrs. Herbert Rogers. Grover Alber from Detroit tests meters in Soo locks. Karl and Ernest Boettger of Detroit visit their parents. Herman Stierle of Ann Arbor visits his brother W. R. Stierle. Mrs. Fred Stein and Mrs. Em-
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Cora Klumpp
Edna Rogers
Otto Berner
Willie Burkhardt
Dexter
Nellie Armbruster
Lodi
B. N. Smith
Violet Smith
Saline Township
Herbert Rogers
Grover Alber
Detroit
Sault Ste. Marie
Soo
Karl
Ernest Boettger
Herman Stierle
Ann Arbor
W. R. Stierle
Fred Stein
Mountbatten Receives Expanded Southeast Asia Command
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten is named commander of an enlarged Southeast Asia command. The new remit includes the Netherlands Indies and the New Guinea Solomons area, areas previously under General MacArthur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Netherlands, Indies
New Guinea - Solomons
MacArthur
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Shooting
William H. Council
Shooting Star
Ater
la Guardia Field
New York
Deyton
Carn
Ais Foress F.olu
Adolph Stierle
Saline
Michigan
Norman Wiedmayer
Lawrence Stein
Liberty
Saline Savings Bank
Saline Park
Lockwood Funeral Home
Francis N. Lockwood
Alice I. Lockwood
Funeral Directors
Selh Fitzgeralds
Warner House
C. H. Carven
Daisy
Citizens Bank
W. L. Rundell
Lee Brown
William Braun
Ypsilanti
Springbrook
Edward Alber
Renz
Henry Bredernitz
Lewis Benz
Lima Township
Ma Stein
Mary Braun
Thomas N. Ross
Cleveland
Henry Carpenter
Perry
Nelson O’deil
Katherine Seitz
Mary Guenther
Floyd Worth
Ralph
Laubengayer
Gertrude
William Seitz
David Seitz
E. F. Layher
Mary Luckhardt
Miss Tillie
Sebewaing
West
Atchison, Kan
St. Joseph
Wyoming
Observer Files
Burkhait Store
Rae
Arthur Armbruster
Elvin Armbruster
Klager’s Hatcheries
Bridgewater
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